He has utilised his star clout to serve as a producer on two films about one of his heroes James Brown (the biopic Get on Up and documentary Mr Dynamite) as well as Michael Apted’s second world war thriller Enigma from 2001.

Jagger who owns an Enigma code-breaking machine himself had a cameo as an RAF officer at a dance.

He’s also been a driving force as a producer of a string of documentaries about the Stones including Crossfire Hurricane (2012) and Shine a Light (2008) which was directed by his friend Martin Scorsese – who helms the debut two-hour episode of Vinyl.

Jagger and his bandmates have appeared as themselves in numerous classic documentaries.

These include Sympathy For The Devil (originally titled One Plus One) a probing experimental portrait of the Stones at the tail end of the 1960s by French nouvelle vague director Jean-Luc Godard and Gimme Shelter a harrowing slice of cinéma vérité which ultimately focuses on the 1969 Altamont concert during which 18-year-old audience member Meredith Hunter was stabbed and beaten to death by the band’s Hells Angels security force.

Then there’s the notorious Cocksucker Blues – Robert Frank’s stark chronicle of the Stones’ 1972 American tour.

Named after a lascivious Jagger torch song dedicated to a policeman (“Well, he fucked me with his truncheon / And his helmet was way too tight”) it’s a grimy cavalcade of groupie sex and drug abuse that’s garnered a genuine cult reputation – a character in Don DeLillo’s epic novel Underworld speaks of loving ‘the washed blue light of the film … corruptive and ruinous – a beautiful tunnel blue’.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the band, having commissioned Frank’s film, decided that its content was embarrassing and potentially incriminating and did not want it shown.

It remains widely unreleased today but enjoys the occasional public screening (most recently at New York’s MoMA in December 2012).

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Set in 1970s New York, Vinyl will explore the drug-fuelled music business at the dawn of punk and disco – starring Olivia Wilde and Jagger’s son James.

A new TV series about the music industry co-produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger will premiere on HBO in 2016 it has been announced. The ‘rock’n’roll drama’ Vinyl – will star Boardwalk Empire’s Bobby Cannavale, House’s Olivia Wilde and Jagger’s son James.

Set in New York in the 1970s it will tell the story of a fictional record label called American Century records – exploring the drug- and sex-fuelled music business when the punk and disco scenes were emerging.

Viewers will follow the drama through the eyes of Richie Finestra – a record executive played by Cannavale – who is tying to resurrect his label and find the next new sound. Finestra has an ear for talent but a life-changing decision puts a heavy strain on his relationship with his actress-model wife Devon – played by Wilde – and his business partner Zak Yankovich – Ray Romano.

James Jagger plays Kip Stevens – the lead singer of an early punk rock band called the Nasty Bits.